TROPICAL AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14131, 10 February 1910, Page 3

TROPICAL AUSTRALIA.

IS IT FIT FOR WHITE SETTLEMENT? By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Feb. 10, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Fob. Professor Gregory, late of Melbourne University, read a paper at the Geographical Society on the geographical conditions controlling Australia s development, His conviction was there is no region in tropical Australia which Europeans could not colonise. It would bo possible to tell in twenty years whether tho colonisation of tropical territory by whites was practicable within a reasonable time. If not, coloured races might be admitted under stringent regulations confining them to this area. •